No invented percentages, no "results may vary" fine print, no client logos we didn't get permission to use. If it's not verifiable in Search Console or Analytics, it doesn't go here.
A digital marketing agency serving local home service businesses had strong backlinks but weak rankings. Six months of on-page SEO, content restructuring, and AEO/GEO optimization moved it from page four to page two on average, and into AI answers across Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, and Gemini.
The agency had a strong backlink profile (Domain Rating in the 60s), yet most pages sat beyond page three. Service pages competed with each other, blog posts overlapped, and almost no content was structured for AI answer engines.
Clicks and impressions climbed steadily from week six onward, with daily clicks regularly passing 60 by month five. The growth held after the first six months: clicks rose another 82% in the following quarter.
Most agencies still optimize only for blue links. We restructured this client's content for answer engines, and in six months the site went from about 26 to 302 Google AI Overview citations. It now appears in 542 AI answers across five platforms.
AI response counts from Ahrefs, which tracks a sample of prompts. Treat them as visibility indicators, not exact totals.
Client name withheld for confidentiality. All figures from the client's Google Search Console and Ahrefs accounts.
Screenshots straight from Search Console or Analytics — the same numbers the client sees, not a rounded-up summary.
Where the site actually stood before work began, including the parts that were already working.
The specific technical, content, AEO, or GEO work performed — not a generic "we optimized everything."
Named attribution when the client agrees to it. When a client asks to stay private, we remove identifying details but never change the numbers.
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